Formalized Information Description for a Medical Expert System

Abstract

The purpose of research. The information description of the patient's health status is based on quantitative parameters and qualitative signs. It is proposed to formalize quantitative and qualitative information about the patient's state of health in order to use this information to build a medical expert system. The expert system built on the basis of this information will be able to make a more accurate diagnosis, which will reduce the time for diagnosis and ultimately increase the effectiveness of treatment.Methods. On the basis of a formalized information description of the state of health of patients, it is possible to construct classes of states: the class of the current state (at the moment), the class of the reference (healthy) state of health of the patient. In the future, it is possible to build classes of patients' health conditions taking into account age and a number of features of diseases, for example, taking into account the area in which the patient lives, etc. In the future, these classes can be implemented in a medical expert system.Results. As a result, a formalized information model of describing the patient's health status based on quantitative parameters and qualitative signs has been built, which can be the basis for a database and knowledge base of a medical expert diagnostic system.Conclusion. As a result, a formalized description of the patient's state of health is proposed. For implementation, it is necessary to provide for the possibility of constructing a separate heuristic algorithm for the diagnosis of the disease, which will be associated with the reproduction in the form of operations of the process of developing a logical structure when reasoning by an expert (doctor) during the treatment of a patient.